This workshop, held to mark Professor Nicolaidis’ years at Oxford University (1999-2023), will feature her former and current DPhil students as impulse givers and bring friends and colleagues together candidly to discuss our contemporary European predicament and take stock of the trajectory of the European project and its global ramifications. The hope is that we can engage honestly in scrutinising our concern for human betterment and transformative potential in the European and global context.

This talk explores the reception of claims of racial discrimination at common law. It takes off from the perspective that, if racial discrimination is only partially addressed in equality law, where else can we locate claims of racial discrimination? The talk thus bypasses the statutory guarantees under the Equality Act 2010 and moves towards the broader realm of common law.